02 Difference of Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese

Simplified and Traditional Chinese

In order to let people learn Chinese characters easier, mainland China government had simplified Chinese characters. 

Most of people use simplified Chinese in the world currently, the following is the current distribution of Chinese type in the world：

mainland China  ：The simplified Chinese

Singapore          ：The simplified Chinese

Malaysia            ：The simplified Chinese

Taiwan               ：The traditional Chinese

Hong Kong        ：The traditional Chinese

＊There are a lots of young Chinese user can read both of traditional or simplified Chinese.

This web uses traditional Chinese and remark simplified Chinese
This website uses traditional Chinese and remark simplified Chinese as below：

Instant noodles；泡麵[面]；pào miàn

＊ For same characters only are remark one time in per post.

Which Chinese we should learn? Traditional or simplified Chinese?

Depend on your purpose.

If you plan to go to China to work or study, you should learn Simplified Chinese.

If you plan to go to Taiwan to work or study, you should learn Traditional Chinese.

What the benefit can we get to learn from traditional Chinese first?

The Characters-making rules had been lost ,once the characters are simplified.

There are the rules to create Chinese characters.

Master the rules, you can learn Chinese easier and happier.

If you learn Simplified Chinese, you are hard to understand the cultural and artistic value for this language.

Just like English "respect" = "re(several time)"+ "spect(look)"

If one day, we remove some characters from the word, how can we know why does "respect" is "respect"? 

e.g. What is simplified Chinese changed?
love；     愛→爱   missing the heart 「心」
noodle；麵→面   missing the wheat「麥」
open；   開→开   missing the door「門」
close；  關→关   missing the door「門」

It's more easy to learn simplified Chinese once you already learn traditional Chinese.

There are the rules to simplify the characters.

Based on the rules, it's easy to learn the simplified Chinese.

You will not need to write Chinese characters much.

Who will write Chinese characters in this modern time?

People use smart phones or computers to type characters by pinyin.

Then, only thing you need learn is to recognize Chinese characters by reading.